Side Border
A leaf of illuminated choir book from about 1450, attributed to Francesco di Antonio del Chierico, a Florentine illuminator, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The picture shows a vertical border of painted acanthus-like scrolls in blue, green, pink and gold, beside square musical notation on red-ruled staves with a red and blue initial letter. A designer could take the stacked scroll ornament, the gold dot clusters and the pairing of decorative margin with plain manuscript text as a model for ornamental borders.
